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Overview

All OCHA staff have access to the OCHA Global Office (OCHA GO) suite of Microsoft 365 Products (Access, Excel, Onenote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word, Skype for Business, and a 1TB storage on OneDrive for Business). Additionally each OCHA office can have a 1TB shared drive to manage office data through Microsoft SharePoint called team site. However, an IM unit needs additional software to process, analyze and disseminate information. The list of tools normally used for an IMU can be found under the tools section in this toolbox

Procedure for Procurement of Hardware and Software

  • For general information please see this page on OCHANet (OCHA login required) https://ochanet.unocha.org/AS/Information_Technology_Services/Pages/OCHA-ICT-Standards.aspx for more detailed explanations 
  • To procure esri products (ArcGIS) please see the esri ArcGIS page in the toolbox.
  • Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Draw, Illustrator (info to be added). OCHA offices should make a request as per guidance on OCHANet under the section Adobe Licences.
  • Tableau: Tableau Public and Reader are free. Tableau Desktop and Server require a liscense. The HDX / Centre for Humanitarian Data team has obtained limited number of Tableau Desktop licenses from the Tableau Foundation.
  • PowerBI: Microsoft Power BI is part of OCHA GO and all OCHA staff are Power BI users. Therefore they can publish to web and the consumers of published report (the readers, viewers) do not need to be Power BI users. Also there are two licenses for Power BI, Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium. The differences between a Free, Pro and Premium users is centered around sharing and collaboration.

Software Requirements

Based on discussions in the first meeting of the IM global functional team the following software was seen as necessary for all OCHA offices:

  • ArcGIS v10.5 Standard
    • ArcGIS Advanced one license only per office if needed
  • Adobe Suite
    • Acrobat Pro 
    • Illustrator
    • InDesign
    • Photoshop
  • Mail Chimp

Discussions are underway to determine the best approach to ensuring that all OCHA field offices have the necessary software at reasonable corporate rates.

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